UPDATE: The Ethics of Fiction (Spain) (10/1/06; 3/30/06-4/1/06)

full name / name of organization:

Silvia Martínez Falquina

contact email:

smfalqui@unizar.es

Dear colleagues:

Here is the second Call for Papers for the Conference on the Ethics of Fictionthat will take place in Zaragoza from March 30 to April 1, 2006. Please notethe extension for the submission of papers; the new deadline is now January10. We hope to see you all in Zaragoza.

The 1980s and 1990s witnessed the emergence of what critics have termedan “ethical turn,” partly produced as a reaction against the culturalradicalism and relativism propounded by certain ideological conceptions of thepostmodern era. The return of ethical criticism is not, however, a homogeneousphenomenon. Critics like Wayne C. Booth and Martha C. Nussbaum have led anattempt to re-introduce the values of liberal humanism associated with MatthewArnold and F. R. Leavis in the academia, while J. Hillis Miller, Andrew Gibsonand Christopher Falzon, among others, have made the case for a criticisminformed by a deconstructive ethics.

We will welcome contributions that will focus on the various ways in whichcontemporary narrative in English articulates ethical concerns, as theyaccount for the three basic aspects of the narrative text: writing, readingand representation.

Suggested topics to explore include (but are not limited to):

-An ethical model of theory-Ethics and literary genre-Ethics and aesthetics-The ethos of the text-Ethics and narrativity-Ethics and narratology-Ethics and politics-Ethics and the articulation of identity-The ethics of gender-Ethics in postcolonial studies-Ethical approaches to indigenous peoples’ studies-The ethics of academia

Three copies of completed papers (max. 2,500 words, aprox. 9 double-spacedpages, including notes and works cited) following the MLA Handbook for Writersof Research Papers together with a 100-150 word abstract should be sent to theorganisers. Author information is to be sent in a separate sheet (includingname, filiation, contact address and paper title). New deadline forsubmissions: January 10th, 2006